Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think women artists are drawn to you as a dealer because of your sex ? |
| 2 | ‘ As long as the patients are volunteers and the risks are explained to them before the operation , I can see no objection myself . ’ |
| 3 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
| 4 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |
| 5 | A wide selection of mustards were supplied to us by Arran Provisions , Colman 's and Burnham Mustards |
| 6 | As many teachers were unable to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Society when formal thanks were given and a presentation made to Hilary Weedon on the completion of her four year term of office as Chairman of the Executive Committee special thanks were given to her by Betty Syrett on behalf of the teachers . |
| 7 | My eyes were drawn to it as if the Officer had left part of himself here on the grass . |
| 8 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 9 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 10 | In Wandsworth the attitude of the Area Health Authority and of Health Visitors was described to me by Geeta Amin , a social worker with Wandsworth Community Relations Council . |
| 11 | Under some forms of PR , their names are put on a list and seats are awarded to them by party managers . |
| 12 | The oranges were given to him by Mr. Singleton of Houghton 's … he realised in Supt. Learmont 's office that the people he received them from might not have the right to give them . |
| 13 | Churchill demanded that all ideas be submitted to him on a half-sheet of paper ; he was frequently insensitive , a bad judge of character , and a sucker for flamboyant charlatans ; intensely loyal , he demanded uncritical loyalty in return . |
| 14 | The students , whose actions were condemned by the Mozambican government , were demanding that their bursaries be paid to them in US dollars . |
| 15 | Their powers are granted to them by the state and the courts ensure through the ultra vires or jurisdictional principle that they do not act outside their powers . |
| 16 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 17 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 18 | If the goods are described to you as seconds , shopsoiled , slightly imperfect , if any phrase like that is used I think your own commonsense should tell you there 's something wrong with these goods and that presumably is the reason why they 're reduced in price . |
| 19 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 20 | On the one hand , while two-thirds of the females were introduced to heroin by their male partner , that is , husband or boyfriend , none of the males were introduced to it by their female partner . |
| 21 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 22 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 23 | I found myself constantly making a connection between what new families were saying to me about what they found most helpful from a social worker and what I as a social worker find most helpful from a team leader . |
| 24 | When instructing Adjusters it is essential that full details are passed to them regarding policy cover and in particular any non standard features , endorsements , etc . |
| 25 | Michael William Beecheno ( ACA ) of 2 Tummons Gardens , South Norwood Hill , London having been found guilty of misconduct within the meaning of Bye-law 76(a) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that in London between 11 March 1991 and 14 March 1991 he improperly suggested that charges to his employers for temporary staff be increased and the additional sums be paid to him under the guise of consultancy fees was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 26 | Most of your study materials are sent to you through the post . |
| 27 | Instructions are sent to you with your card , and can also be requested on the screen of Abbeylink machines . |
| 28 | In part it 's down to S&M mainstream fashion ; in part to the rise of interest in all forms of body art ; in part to the fact that gays are turning to it as a form of safer sex ( hardly the sort of thing that should be criminalised ) . |
| 29 | Betsy died in 1864 , and tributes were paid to her in newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic and much further afield . |
| 30 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |